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- Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, told the House impeachment inquiry that she felt threatened by Trump and “shocked, appalled, devastated” that he insulted her in a call with another foreign leader.
- The Northern State University student discussed being attacked by famous authors on Twitter for an innocuous quote in a local newspaper, and mentions she studies online harassment: “The irony has not evaded me."
- The Department of Education said it is investigating claims of anti-Semitism at NYU.
- Clive Owen will play Bill Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story, alongside Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones.
- DaBaby is the most exciting new rapper to blow up this year—check out his super fun new video for “BOP On Broadway (Hip Hop Musical).”
- What will replace the Rikers jails?
- Sweetgreen 3.0 on Park Avenue South sounds like a huge bust.
- Nicolas Cage is in talks to star as actor Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a movie whose plot sounds sorta like Adaptation, but this time Cage "talks to an egotistical 1990s version of himself who rides him for making too many crappy movies and for not being a star anymore."
- A straphanger slashed a 19-year-old after the teen bumped into him at a Queens subway station.
- Why do Millennials love being homebodies?
- And finally, everybody gets a hug, because it's Friday!
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